Hey everybody.
what a month it has been. i feel settled so happy and truly content, but also exhausted and a little nervous about the state of the world. We had snow on 4 different occasions last week, and on april 19 , I woke up to 3 inches on the ground outside my tent. Baby lambs were born that day and the day before, all the cows escaped the fencing due to faulty batteries and a heifer with an attitude problem was running wild on the opposite end of the property. My fellow intern and i spent our weekend freezing in the snow and running after stray cattle, constantly checking on lambs (who are really tough stuff, by the way!). The c.s.a garden has been watter logged and impossible to cultivate. we think we may need to set back the dates for shares. We hope to till by sunday and get the ball really rolling. But in the mean time we have been single digging (hand tilling) which is tiresome but feels good and gives the ladies of the farm a chance to bond over shovels full of heavy dirt and bluegrass music.
Crazy weather and stress aside, i have been most productive! making cheeses, butter, yogurt, creamy things, like ice cream (we are getting 2 gallons of milk per/day from one cow) and other tasty treats as well as bread, dinner for 9 twice a week and some beautiful compost piles that would make Ann Marie proud. Also doing tests on starts with 500 and 501 in the green house, taking notes and doing as much research into BD preps as possible, getting ready for the workshop on BD held here at the end of June, where i will be teaching 12-20 people about BD preps; making and the application of...... EEEKKKKSSSS! im not sure how that will happen, i can hardly talk to 2 people with out blushing, but we will see how it goes, i guess i have to start teaching somewhere.
i feel like i have so much more to tell, but it will have to wait, ive rambled enough already.

*thanks for the link to the bees, we are in a dire situation, and i am afraid my friends, we will be the ones taking agriculture trough the troughs of a massive shift in the enviroment as well as in the concioussness of human kind. Lets show them the way! i encourage all of you to keep up the good hard work, you are appreciated and loved all around the world by the massive flux of young people doing just what we all are right now. Working to understand the earth, her power and gifts, so as to sustain and feed this world. As well as saving the beauty of it for our children.

-how do i post pictures on this thing?
- does anyone have Phils email? im only 2 stops on the ferry away from his island and would love to contact him and take a feild trip to another bd farm


"its all about the love"- henning ( my boss talking about bd preps and loving compost piles and the spaces they are in)

erin